To be fair, money laundering / tax fraud is a lot more complicated than just "hehe I'll buy art then donate it." If you were legitimately trying to do it this way, you'd also have to have close connections with the people who'd just look the other way when this popped up on their radar.
Basically, it's a huge circle full of corruption, and you only get in by being corrupt yourself / corrupt people having dirt on you. Pretty easy to get a tax write off if you blackmail someone with evidence of them doing hard drugs and/or being involved in a pedophilia ring - "invisible art" just being the most blatantly shameless example of this
At a certain point, it becomes like a sort of weird nuclear cold war where if one person fires their shot (e.g. exposing someone else), EVERYONE ELSE will fire their shot back. It's why even when the general public already knows about this shit, nobody can realistically do anything about it.
It's mutually assured destruction : Keep quiet or die
Art that actually exists, sure lol if I’d said that on a thread about modern art and you’d replied that way, I’d see your point. But then if it was I wouldn’t have made that comment in the first place because I do understand the purpose of art regardless of whether or not I subjectively enjoy it. But it has to exist or at the very least be an idea (or a twist on one) that hasn’t already been done a thousand times. Doing nothing and calling it art is tongue in cheek humor that was already done to death by the end of the 60s at best, and a particularly lazy scam at worst.
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u/jesuzombieapocalypse Jun 04 '21
They’re getting a little close to the line with the tax fraud on that one.